What is the meaning of professing?

Answer 1

To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely., To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of., To present to knowledge of, to proclaim one's self versed in; to make one's self a teacher or practitioner of, to set up as an authority respecting; to declare (one's self to be such); as, he professes surgery; to profess one's self a physician., To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess., To declare friendship.

Answer 2

of Profess

Answer 3

It means having made a statement about oneself. "He professed to know how to fix transmissions." "He professed to be a Muslim." "He professed to have the original Ark of the Covenant."

It is related to the word "profession" meaning a kind of occupation, and "professor" meaning a learned person who teaches at a university.